Jean Mayer



 (19 April 1920 – 1 January 1993) was a French-American scientist best known for his research on the physiological bases of hunger and the metabolism of essential nutrients, and for his role in shaping policy on world hunger at both the national and international levels.

Quotes

 * [The] enormous appetite for animal products has forced the conversion (at a very poor rate) of more and more grain, soybean and even fish meal into feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, thus decreasing the amounts of food directly available for direct consumption by the poor.
 * "By Bread Alone", The New York Times Book Review (15 December 1974); quoted in The Diet Delusion by (Random House, 2008), p. 42.


 * [ Vegetarianism] has three things going for it all at once—economics, health and compassion.
 * Quoted in "Vegetarianism: Growing Way of Life, Especially Among the Young" by Judy Klemesrud, The New York Times (21 March 1975).


 * Quite often the young person is horrified at innocent animals being driven to the slaughterhouse to satisfy the appetites of the human species which could easily feed itself in other ways.
 * "Introductory Remarks on Vegetarianism", in Vegetarianism and the Jewish Tradition by Louis A. Berman (KTAV Publishing House, 1982), p. xx.


 * In becoming a vegetarian, you will eat a greater percentage of your calories from cereal grains, dried beans and peas, potatoes and pasta—the very foods most dieters avoid with zeal. And you will lose weight.
 * Quoted in "Why People Get Fat" by Keith Akers,  (May 1983), p. 29.

Quotes about Mayer

 * A small, bespectacled man who became an American citizen after the war but never lost his French accent or Gallic jauntiness, Dr. Mayer (pronounced my-YAIR), was a perfect blend of European intellectual and American pragmatist: a charming, talkative, often stubborn educator who pushed the frontiers of knowledge in the laboratory and fought hunger and malnutrition wherever they flourished.
 * , "Jean Mayer, 72, Nutritionist Who Led Tufts, Dies", The New York Times (2 January 1993).